Dozens of opposition parties in Ivory Coast have formed an alliance ahead of the country’s president election due to take place in October.
The Coalition for a Peaceful Alternation is hoping to push demands for electoral reform and impose a balance of power on the ruling party.
The alliance includes the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast, the country’s oldest party, the Movement of Capable Generations of former first lady, Simone Gbagbo, and Charles Blé Goudé’s Young Patriots of Ivory Coast.
But one major party is missing from the new coalition, that of former president Laurent Gbagbo.
With the opposition in three blocs, there’s a risk of votes being divided among them which could benefit the ruling party.
